Schering-Plough Reviews

Pros

Great Benefits, Great Compensation, if you work hard you will succeed. Management is amazing, as well as counterparts. Great Car Program, Cell phone and internet reimbursed.

Cons

Merged with Merck, never ending lay offs, micro management. Access to rebates and vouchers in a city where they were highly needed were not available.

Advice to Senior Management

Urge your employees to use creative outlets to get to the decision maker. The doctors see 20 reps selling the same thing everyday. Sticking to the corporate way will never get you in the door.

Pros

Good location and fair benefit

Cons

Politics was too obvious, communication with management was not channelled

Pros

Have a great opportunity to grow from an entry level position
Coworkers are willing to help and teach new comers

Cons

Bad communication between higher level management and employees at the manufacturing facility in which I worked.
There are rumors that the facility is going to close

Pros

Great pay compensation benefits. Business casual environment ,very employee friendly.

Cons

Limted growth in area, very competitive working environment too conservative.

Advice to Senior Management

Open communicatons to employees

Pros

Great atmosphere to work in and great work-life balance. Working at Schering-Plough gave me a great satisfaction. This company allowed the freedom of employees to grow in many ways.

Cons

I found my immediate managers to be extraordinary; however, upper management did not always communicate effectively to the department what was expected.

Advice to Senior Management

Proper communication of department goals and objectives to is helpful to building team unity. Overall great processes and workfows within.

Pros

good benefits and very well compensated

Cons

large company with a lot of red tape

Advice to Senior Management

hire better people at the lower management positions

Pros

Benefits, values, vision-mision, leadership behaviors, provided professional/personal development pathway and also work style of SP

Cons

there had been requiring the developed IT systems.

Pros

Different projects available to challenge portfolio of experience and many people with different backgrounds top help enhance your career growth.

Cons

As with most companies like this there is a high workload and the hours can take on a more than 9 - 5 model. Up to the individual to control this though with boundaries.

Advice to Senior Management

It is always important for management to listen to their employees, Actively listen. Sometimes it is good to have disorganized innovation and step outside the box.

Pros

Prior to 2000, I was at Schering-Plough Singapore and found the company to be a great and fun place to work. Staff are friendly and helpful, it has that small family feeling-- Kampong. Things may have changed a lot now after Merck's acquisition..

Cons

I think the place has grown really big and the atmosphere has definitely changed from the Kampong feeling to u know what esp.. after the M&A.. good luck.

Advice to Senior Management

Do what is right and treasure your most important asset.. staff.. Stay focus and business is changing real fast for Pharma..

Pros

Good place to work, nice and competetive benefits, flexible work hours. From personal development perspective you will develop leadership, collaborating and team work skills.

Cons

May have to travel to multiple work locations

Advice to Senior Management

Employee retention is important